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Fort Pierce News-Tribune Published Daily In Ilia llaarl of tho am out Indian It Ivor cl Ion" LOCAL DATA 14 law ftmd Mdu a Frida? Maximum Minimum Bala Bar i MM 1 wnw- 40 at NIWI-TIIIUNI Fn Nm MUii Him lurtw Agricultural Develcpmest New Industries Beach and Tourism DevsIopmsoL Railroad Ovsrpauoa Primary aad tanadar? ludi IACM TIMFIIATUUI (lt: AM IATURDAVI Temperature: Air Hi Or ran IS VOL fcQ-Nft 206 FORT TIERCE FLORIDA SUNDAY AUGUST 1953 vsvtoi awa rniMdu tb ia Slngl 10e More Prison Weary 4 Captives Are Released Malenkov Claims Russia Has Mastered Hydrogen Bomb Announcement Made In Speech To Parliament to Jail by the Red for what the Communists termed "instigating agsimt pear" Others said the Reds were holding back four Allied suldiera who nor had been guards at the Koje Island prison camp where Red TOW diehard have rioted and been controlled by force TO INSIST UPON RETURN OF ALL POWS II TO RETAIN CONTROL OVER SLAND GROUPS Ryukyu Iionlns Not To he Ktlrined to Trutfrahlp WASHINGTON Aug I tJR-Th 'ailed Slates today rtosed the done oa any United Nations trusteeship aver the American base of Okinawa nr other Islands in the strategic Ryukyu and Bonin chains south of Japan The action marking a shift In tailed Slates policy was taken by Secretary of Slate Dulles In statement at Tokyo announcing the return to Japan of one group of stands In the Ryukyu system hilles statement was released simultaneously in Washington Tb Ryukyui and Rnnins were taken from Japan as far as ad mlnistrativr control goes by Article of the Japanese rear Treaty This part formally ending World War II in the Pacific was signed at San Francisco In September 1951 The treaty committed Japan to "concur In any proposal of the tailed States to the United Nations to plare (the island groups) under its trusteeship system with the United States as the sole ad ministering authority" The treaty also stated that "pend' Ing the making of such a proposal and its approval by the United No lions the United States would have the right to rule the Islands Until today the understanding had been that eventually some kind of United Nations trusteeship system would be set up probably parallelling the trusteeship arrangements already made for the old League of Nations mandated islands which Japan lost bt the last war Now however Duties has declared that with respect to the Ryukyu and except for the Amaml group being returned to "it will be necessary during the present international tension in the Far East for the United States to maintain the degree of control and authority now exercised" This change of position apparently is due to Japanese political pressures and to the strategic Importance of the Okinawa airbase to the American security system in the Western Pacific ANMUNJOM undiy Auf Ilia Ika Karaaa War IB Tha Cammualau shuttled Acting Secretary of Butt Walter truckloads of prison woary cap 3111 Smith la a alairmant a livaa bark fcama to the Allied ldepriie concern avrr rrpmia that today Tha Americans and Britons I Communiau may not Inland among than war la apparant I to rmura alt prlaonrra la found condition and good aplriu uir custody Jjj oumhor of tha Upturning Amarlcana Lava tnld Tha fifth day of tha big post armlalko prisoner of war as I change bagaa promptly at I a I (1 EST Saturday) la tha hot and duaty roadalda ranter of Pan munjom whara tha truca waa ne-fotiatad Tha aichanga today waa to bring I hack 111 Americana It Brltona II WASHINGTON Aug UP-Th a Turka I Auatraliana I Canadian United State aervad notice today 1 Filipino and Z30 South Korean that It cipacla Rad China and la the ftrat group ware 100 South Korea la give up every prio-Korean litter caaaa transported I of war now in their hand down from the Communiat north-! Mark Clark supremo AL land in 11 Ruaalaa-bullt Molotov tommander In the Tar East ambulance I ha aaid ha think the Rada have Tender hand lifted tha South Korean from tga ambulance and carried them Inside tha Allied The South Korean were dated fram Korea that com American tom barely able to ralaa their I P0W h(vt tn aentenced to JaU head Few amiled term by the Red la recent week American Marine were grim charged with "Inatigating against and unamDIng too aa they carried tha litter into tha reception can Expressing grave concern about ter Tha Chineaa driver looked oa I the situation the State Depart atolcally ment issued a statement saying Far tha first time since tha ex- "progress of tha prisoner exchange change began there were no Chi- Is being watched very closely and peso photographers on hand to ra- appropriate action will ha taken cord tha scene It was not the kind Just as soon as definite facta are that made good propaganda established" Tha statement was Allied Personnel rushed the I acting Secretary of Stste South Koreans to helicopters for a "I1 BedeU Sml" swift rid to Munsaa where expert Takjng a slap at Soviet Russia hospital care awaited them 4 As the Allied repatriates moved I has long been 'believed on south Communist prisoners were going north through the Red reception center The latter group included 471 North Korean women and 1 Chines woman nurses wives and camp followers And there were 21 Korean children under the age of I Some ware bora In prison camp As tha woman and children passed through the American sons in a double convoy of ambulances WASHINGTON Aug 0 good authority that the Soviet Union still holds an unknown number of World War II prisoners of dif ferent nationalities and ft was with this In mind that we insisted on a clausa in the armlstir agreement which provided that any United Nations personnel who arc said not to desire repatriation must nevertheless be transferred to the custody of tha repatriation commission where our officers will have access to them This woul include any prisoners alleged to have been given Jail sentences Nona arc exempt" From those already UberatedL officers have learned that there are some Americans who have decided not to return because they fear reprisals fram fellow captives These men were do scribed as informers for the Reds Stale Department offkials said tha "appropriate action" mentioned In Smith's statement means first of all a complaint that the armislke is being violated- Procedure for making such complaints is provided in the truce EXPERTS DOUBT IF H-BOMB PRODUCED! HUSBAND REPATRIATED WIFE AND DAUGHTER ALL SMILES With on of hia lege gone and hobbling on crutchei Lt-Col Thomas Harrison of Clovis Ii assisted by Marine as be la repatriated In the second exchange of prisoners of war at Panmunjom Korea Harrison lost his leg when he leaped from his burning Jet plane over enemy territory In May 1951 In the photo ot right Col Harrison'i wife Doris beam! with happineso and huga her daughter Barbara 5 after hearing the good newa that her huaband waa once again In friendly hands She la shown at homa in Clovis Col Harrison la a cousin of Lt-Gen William Harrison senior Allied truce negotiator (AP Wlrephoto at left via radio from Tokyo and AP Wlrephoto at right) (he West not to read Russian weakness Into the purge of Lavrenty Berta the former Soviet secret police chief and onetime close associate of Malenkov There waa soma speculation that Malenkov may be feeling more secure internally and that with Berta out of the way and the foilow-up purge' presumably going well he now considers himself In position to take stronger foreign policy line Against this authorities balance the fact that an armistice for whatever reasoni has been achieved in the Korean War Malenkov's hydrogen bomb boast WASHINGTON Aug I UR-Rus-sia may have mastered the secret of the hydrogen bomb as Premier dalenkov claimed today but Amer-can experts doubt that the Soviet Union actually has produced one of those terrible weapons These officials who probably are at writ informed on Soviet atomic progress as anyone outside Russia expressed their doubts after studying Malenkov's speech to hia Red parliament Diplomatic authorities who make it a practice to keep track of tha twiata and turns of Kremlin foreign policy also cam up with this conclusion: that Malenkov's talk Including hia 11-homb boast waa deliberately tmigh contrasting sharply with the peaceful gestures with which Russia has been trying to impress the world shire the death of Stalin five months ago drew no reaction from tiit White House which President Eisenhower P(iA PlasnC left today for a Colorado va- vv llwdUS cation It produced no air of crisis On school of thought in Wash lington was represented Jn a stated For Return Best Pal After declaring that the United I ment by Lewis Strauss chairman Aftscrts Peace by Negotiation Is Pres ent Soviet Policy MOSCOW Aug I LR-Premler Georgi Malenkov aaid today "the United States no longer has the monopoly of the hydrogen bomb" and tbe Soviet Union baa mastered production of that super weapon lie marie the announcement in a surprise speech on Russian and world including the purge of Deputy Premier Lavrenty before a Joint session nf the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) Tb 1900 legislators cheered Malenkov said the United States long ago lost Its monopoly la tbe production of the atom bomb "The transatlantic enemies of peace" he said "have of late found a new solace: The United States are In possession of a still more powerful weapon than tho atom bomb and bavo monopoly of tho hydrogen bomb If you please This evidendy could bavo been some sort of comfort for them bad it been in keeping with reality but this Is not so The government deems it necessary to report to the Security Council that tho United Stales have no monopoly In the production of tha hydrogen bomb either" (The US Atomle Energy Committee's chairman Lewis Strauss said: "Wo bavo nevrr assumed that it was beyond tho capability of the Russians to product such a weapon and that is the reason why more than three yean ago it was decided to press forward with this development for ourselves" Tbe United States has not yet aaid officially It baa actually created a hydrogen bomb which theoretically VMM have many timea the explosive power of the A-bomb But rumors of a successful H-bomb explosion followed tests last year in a Pacific bland group Some sailors wrote of seeing entire islands disappear) -Malenkov's announcement cam five years and nine months after the disclosure by Vyacheslav Molotov then and now the Soviet foreign minister that the (Western) secret of the atom bomb "has long since ceased to exist" Wearing a Khaki tunic the Premier spoke quickly but quietly from prepared speech carried in a black folder He attacked the North Atlantic loc aa tha main danger to world peace assailed what ha called the United States policy of atomie blackmail and said that despite a reduced 1953 defense budget Russia is prepared to give "a crushing blow to any aggressor who wants to violate the peaceful life of tho Soviet socialbt republics" The Soviet Union to as never firm strong and decisive the Premier told the legislators At the same time he said peace through negotiation is not a diplomatic tactic but the general line of present Soviet policy and that after many years there is now felt a certain relaxation in the atmosphere of international affairs He said there was a great public demand for highest level talks among the great powers There to no objective reason for a collision between Russia and the United States she said and Am- crican statesmen are making a big mistake if they considered Soviet efforts toward peace a sign of weakness or softness Making a direct reference to Beria the former secret police chief ousted and arrested as a traitor last month Malenkov declared It was short-sighted to think Beria'a case showed weakness of the Soviet state Malenkov laid that to have exposed and rendered harmless a master agent of imperialism was a demonstration of internal strength He aaid he welcomed the statement which President Eisenhower made in April but that the real policy of the United States has been contrary to the President's statement (This apparently referred to a foreign affairs speech by the President before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington April 16 Eisenhower said the first great step toward peace must be an honorable armistice in of the Atomic Energy Commission who said: "We have never assumed that It was beyond the capabilities of the Russians to produce such a weapon and that la the reason why more (Continued on page 2) States "have no monopoly in the production of the H-bomb" Malenkov accused this country of having practiced atomic blackmail He also assailed the Atlantic Treaty system as the main danger to world peace and warned Business Circles Disturbed by Reported Proposals on T-H Act First Supplies For Rebuilding Korea Shipped WASHINGTON Aug UR-The first ship carrying new American supplies to remake war-shattered Korea into a "show window" el the free world already has left San Francisco Three others are due to safl Tuesday with cargoes of cotton barley and rkc The four vessels will be the vanguard of hundreds which will carry food raw materials and equipment in the drive to relieve and reconstruct South Korea In the wake of the truce In announcing the first shipments Foreign Aid Director Harold Stassen said today they are "symbolic of the determination of free men to be as vigorous in peace as they are valiant in war in defense of freedom" Moving quickly to put the reconstruction program into gear the first cargo 4100 tons of barley was loaded aboard the vessel and Trader in San Francisco even before President Eisenhower signed congressional legislation Friday authorizing 200 million dollars to start the reconstruction task The ship sailed fram San Francisco Thursday To follow this up 8000 tons of rice will leave the San Francisco Bay area Tuesday aboard the New Rochelle Victory along with 4500 tons of barley aboard a second vessel the Beaver State About the same time 10000 bales of cotton wUl be hoisted aboard the SteUa Lykes in the Gal veston-Houston area to begin the movement of supplies from the Gulf ports This shipment is part of 18000 bales urgently requeste by the South Korean government to meet a critical shortage threatening unemployment in the cotton milling industry UR-Chalr- 10000 1 mB Chiperfield (R-D1) of the £7rSd c-mut 4k i-kiMrMi were 1 said today that the trend of for- flags Many of the children were I a tldypeildlB rtirte( The machinery of prisoner change was functioning smoothly He made thestatement in recap-but there were background signs Hulating the work of his committee of coming dispute Mven months" In Washington the Stale Depart-1 in the recent congressional session ment said it told the Communists The committee approved expen-they1 must turn over to the Station ditures of $5157437300 In the 11 Armistice Repatriation Commis- Me that it reported out and Iwhkh a ion all prisoners captured Congress ftaaUy approved Chiper- field said in his statement These Included minor measures I in addition to foreign aid The committee and the House voted a ceiling of $4005000000 for overseas assistance but the final appropriation of new money was 4 Mi billion I dollars Planting of the fall tomato Chiperfield said the five billion crap in this area is well under dollar total approved by the corn-way mittee compared with an average Land has been cleared diked of seven billion dollars which the and plowed and seeding opera- 82nd Congress voted during each tions begun Planting will con- leggfon for foreign aid tinue however probably into a decade ago the Foreign Af-early September fairs Committee was concerned Indications an that there will I with measures calling for a total be about the normal fall planting I expenditure of $102000 he added around 4500 acres according to 1 Congress took a new step this County Agent Charles Kime aession Chiperfield added by put-There will also be light plant- ting a provision into the foreign ings of cucumbers lima beans telling the President how siuash and some other vegeta-1 to use the military equipment to Wes I be purchased with half of the new Meanwhile harvesting a dfun(l appropriated for European shipment of the biggest sweet military assistance The amont inpotato crap ever grown in this Volved is about 900 million dollars area has been completed More The amendment by Rep Rich-thin 76000 bushels were ban- arcs (D-SC) specifies that when died through the State Farmers I ye equipment is ready in 1056 it Market with receipts totaling can given only to the as yet with Congress out of session" Tha National Association of Manufacturers was a little less disturbed advising members in privately circulated "Washington Bulletin" as follows: A number of persons familiar with the situation are of the opinion that there is more excitement than is Justified Whether this viewpoint is correct only time can tell but it is known that the draft is being revised" Quick Formation United Stales 0( Europe Urged BADEN BADEN Germany Aug I The foreign ministers of aix Western European countries called tonight for the quick formation of a United States of Europe They announced plans to complete the blueprint for this community of 150 million people this autumn In a policy message to their peoples following a 2-day conference in this old German resort city the six ministers unanimously pledged to work "unerringly and without hesitation" to weld their nations into one powerful state They announced that their governments "in order to guarantee quick progress toward this will send experts to a special conference In Rome Sept 22 to complete a study of a constitution for the projected union The foreign minixtera wUl meet again in The Hague Oct 20 to and possibly this historic document West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer a strong advocate of European unity promptly declared that the conference here no room for any doubt that all the participating countries wish to create a European community with all the force at their disposal and as quickly as possible" of Body INCHON Korea Aug With tears in his eyes a young soldier just bark from a Communist prison camp pleaded today for the return of the body of his best friend from a burial ground beside the Yalu River He died during the night when conditions were bad there at Pyok-tong" said CpI Fred Porter 22 of Los Angeles "The others took him across a little inlet in the Yalu to the place we buried our dead" he said "One guy who wanted to beeoma reverend said a service over the grave I didn't go I said a prayer at the side of the building (Well call Porter's friend Joe Censorship forbids use of his real name) "Joe saved my life twice before we were captured" Porter said in an interview was from a little town in Alabama He was 6 foot 1 I'm 5 foot 4 He called me He was just a few months older than me but he treated me like a little brother "He taught me everything 1 know about fighting on the line He was a soft-spoken kid and alow-talking He used to tell me not to get excited" Porter and Joe were in the same squad in the 2nd Division Joe was captured by the Chinese Commupisls at Kunu Nov 26 1950 Joe just wasted away in prison camp The food was bad-millet and ground corn-and there wasn't much of it Joe died in March 1951 just when management of the camp was turned over from the North Koreans to the Chinese Reds and conditions began to get a little better "He loxt a great deal of weight" Porter said He wasted down to almost nothing "The day before he died I talked with him in the camp hospital He told me sure to come back tomorrow That night he died" There was a hill across the inlet where the prisoners buried their dead The hill is in North Korea but at the edge of the Ualu Porter said there are 1700 or 1750 Americans buried there Other estimates have run as high as 2000 Plane Probes Area of Wave WASHINGTON Aug 8 OR-Busi-ness groups were reported highly disturbed today by the "preliminary" draft of a message to Congress containing White House recommendations for changing the Taft-Hartley Act The tentative message which leaked out recently waa considered favorable to labor unions rather than to employers It never was formally submitted to Congress but the question remains whether it is a real tip-off on what President Elsenhower wants dime on the touchy Taftr Hartley question' The proposed message did get from the White House to the chairmen of tiie Senate and House Labor Committees with a request for fast scrutiny and comment This waa on Friday July 31 At about the same time the draft reached the com' mittee chairmen Sen Taft (R-Ohio) principal author of the labor relations act died in New York "Businessmen have been highly disturbed the Chamber of Commerce of the United States said in its Washington report "The resultant confusion has done little to allay the fears of the business The Chamber's publication went on to report that the White House has been receiving "telegrams and letter! expressing businessmen's concern over the purported recommendations" The Chamber encouraged more such letters saying they "are appropriate especially $22610142 unformed European Defense Community or a similar organisation approved by Congress Only West Germany has ratified the treaty setting up the EDC and its pro- Here Above National Average Teacheri to Open Conference August 17 Annual pre-school conference rm of St Lucie county school teach- Number Municipal Employes weeks according to County Supt 1 1 Huskey Meeting for the most part in their individual schools teachers will plan and set up their program for the new year There will also be general meetings during the period The new term opens for pupils Wednesday Sept 2 with all pupils entering schools in this county for the first time regardless of grade regiatering Tuesday Sept 1 (Special te (he Naws-Tribuna) NEW YORK Fort Pierce baa more people in its employ in proportion to its population than have most cities in the United States This is revealed by the Census Bureau following a survey it has just completed of public employment nd payrolls in 1233 cities over city Nationally tha per capita cost of meeting municipal payrolls was $345 month Among the cities under 100000 the cost was lower averaging $237 per capita reduced to $203 for cities 10000 to 25000 The wages ppid to Pierce employes were MIAMI Aug 8 The Navy today sent a Puerto Rican-based hurricane hunter plane into an easterly wave which stretched from tiie vicinity of Puerto Rico southward into the Caribbean Sea Heavy rain and winds of about 35 mile an hour were reported This was no change from previous observations There was no evidence of a circulation around a center which would indicate the development of a tropical storm Oscar Norman in the Miami storm warning center reported the wave was of the stable type which meant its bad weather was behind the windshift line The type of easterly wave with its heavy weather ahead of the shift line is more likely to develop tropical storms he said Norman said the easterly wave gets its name because it is a band of bad weather moving from east to west "It is a windshift line with the wind blowing from the southeast into the wave and shifting sharply to blow from the northeast at the crest of the wave" he explained is a lot of dirty weather connected with it" Board Seeks Lowdown On School Buildings The -St Lucie county school board hopes to find out when the new white and Negro high schools may be occupied when it holds its regular monthly meeting Tuesday night At that time the board will meet with representatives of the construction company and architects to determine just when the equipment may be moved in so that things can be made ready for the if rting of school on Sept 2 The Thompson-Polizsi Construction Co of Miami is general contractor on the jobs and Hatcher and Edgar Wortman are the architects 10000 October 1952 was used as the test month Carried on the municipal payroll in Fort Pierce wen 194 employes This amounted to 138 employes for every 1000 local residents and was over the rate found In the other cities an average of 123 municipal workers for every 1000 people It was also over the rate in dtiei of 10000 to 25000 which waa 93 per 1000 The payroll in Fort Pierce tar its municipal stiff including part-time and temporary workers amounted to $45800 during the month under study It wm equivalent to an assessment of $327 tor each resident of the nonschool per It of Fort somewhat lower than in most of tha communities Local earnings averaged $236 a month compared with $281 for all the cities They were better however than wages in cities in the 10000 to 25000 size group which were $220 a month The Census Bureau finds from its survey that city government employment and payrolls were at an all-time high in the past year The number of employes increased 34 per cent over the prior year and payrolls jumped 90 per cent in the period About 85 per cent of the personnel were employed full-time the pticentage being lower than that in the smaller cities and larger in the bigger cities Beach Residents To Buy Own Spray Jeep To Fight Insect Pests Fort Fierce Beach residents propose to buy and spray-equip a jeep for their own exclusive use in combatting the mosquito and sand-fly nuisance on the island Under sponsorship of the Fort Pierce Beach Improvement Association they have set out to raise among themselves $3000 to purchase and equip the jeep and provide the lultial supply of spray material A good portion of the amount already has been raised it was reported Saturday and it i expected that the entire amount will be subscribed Katherine Hepburn Is Hospital I'atient HARTFORD Conn Aug 8 UH-Actress Katherine Hepburn is a patient at Hartford Hospital it was disclosed today by her surgeon-urologist father Dr Thomas Hepburn Dr Hepburn declined to discuss reports that hi 44-year-old daughter had undergone surgery Thursday saying: never give out any notices about any patient of mine" Truman Nephew to Become Chief of Staff of Third Army ATLANTA Aug UR Brig Gen Louis Truman nephew of the former president will become Third Army chief of staff Monday The 45-year-old native of Kansas City Mo was assistant commander of the 2nd Infantry Divi sinn in Korea until a few weeks ago WEATHER FLORIDA: Partly 'cloudy with scattered thundershowers north and central clear to partly cloudy with widely scattered afternoon thundershowers south portion' through Sunday a few showers lower east coast during night and morning Monday South Bridge Tides High 10:23 am: 10:47 pm Low 4:23 am 4:37 pm Broakwatar tidss 2 hwra earlier 17 KILLED IN BUS WRECK IN BRAZIL RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil Aug 8 A bus carrying 46 persons' home from a Roman Catholic pilgrimage crashed yesterday through the concrete wall of a bridge and plunged to a river bank 65 miles southeast of Sao Paulu Twelve passengers died instantly and five others later in hospitals that cat we got in the News-Tribune Want guess who's a.